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Originally Posted by athenian200
Well, I understand your feelings on that. It is pretty detrimental to people to have them thinking they're incurably stupid because of one test. I also question whether the sort of questions on I.Q. tests even accurately measure a person's potential intelligence. I mean, there might be limits on a person if they're mentally retarded or something, but barring that, I think you can pretty much do anything. My third favorite quote is, "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." It might not be true for everything, but it seems like a healthy perspective.
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I don't think I.Q. tests come even close to measuring "intelligence". The IQ community can't make up it's mind. Are they in search of something similar to height in intelligence? or are they in search of something that correlates with performance (analogous to a test of basketball skills)? It is just too broad to be meaningful.